Langer comes up ACEs

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Bernhard Langer shot a final-round 72 and won his second ACE Group Classic title in three years by one stroke on Sunday.

Langer 2-putted from 50 feet on the 18th for par to finish at 12-under 204, ahead of Jay Don Blake at TwinEagles Club's Talon Course at Naples, Fla.

“I'm certainly relieved now, having won,” Langer said. “It was definitely a grind. I was hoping to come down to the last hole with, whatever, a three-shot lead or something, make it easy.”

Langer, who won this tournament in 2011 and was runner-up last year, survived three bogeys and a double bogey.

LPGA: South Korea's Jiyai Shin won the Australian Women's Golf Open at Canberra by two shots, finishing with a 1-under 72 to beat world No. 1 Yani Tseng after being tied for the overnight lead with teenage star Lydia Ko.

PGA European: South African Darren Fichardt captured the Africa Open at East London, South Africa, edging countryman Jaco Van Zyl and Gregory Bourdy of France by two shots.

Match Play Championship: No. 1 seed Rory McIlroy will play Shane Lowry and No. 2 Tiger Woods will face Charles Howell III in the opening round of the Match Play Championship, which begins Wednesday at Dove Mountain, north of Tucson.

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